A Visual Guide to Kodak Cameras

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Cameras made before 1930

My primary focus is cameras produced between 1930 and 1960 but I will update this section over time.

Vintage Premo Camera box and the camera itself. The box displays 'Premo Film Camera Daylight Loading' by Eastman Kodak Co., with design details, and a visible vintage camera in the background.
Vintage box camera with a simple rectangular design, black color, featuring a front lens and viewfinder openings, and a top handle.
Vintage Kodak folding camera with bellows and lens visible, black and silver design, on a white background.
Vintage Vest Pocket Kodak Model B camera with bellows and lens visible, front view.
Vintage folding camera with bellows and metal struts, featuring a lens plate and black casing. Known as the soldier's camera during World War I
Vintage Vest Pocket Kodak Series III camera with bellows and lens visible.
Vintage folding Kodak camera with bellows and metal parts

Image Source: Tony Kemplen

Vintage camera store display featuring Kodak cameras and signs, with various promotional posters and prices shown.

Cameras made between 1930-1939

The height of art deco design, this period of camera design at Kodak was spearheaded by industrial designer, Walter Dorwin Teague.

Kodak Beau Brownie Cameras. All Five colors are seen here for the Beau Brownie no 2, 620.
Two vintage folding cameras with bellows, one in red and the other in purple.

Image Source: Geoff Harrisson 
Vintage folding camera with box and instruction booklet on a plain background.
Vintage Kodak step pattern Petite camera with geometric turquoise and silver design.

Image Source: Pacific Rim Cameras

The Kodak Coquette features a bright blue Kodak Petite camera with a lightning, art deco patterned faceplate with a matching makeup compact and a blue lipstick cylinder.
Vintage Kodak folding camera ensemble with carrying case and accessories.

Image Source: Gloriously Colorful Kodaks

Three vintage Kodak cameras with engraved designs and emblems, displayed upright on clear stands.
The Vanity Kodak pictured here are blue, red, and green.
The No. 1A Gift Kodak is brown with an art deco design. It has a red accent with dark brown. It came in a matching oak, art deco case.
Vintage Kodak Bantam Special, black camera with horizontal silver stripes and a protruding lens cap, featuring an Art Deco design style.
Vintage Kodak Bantam Series cameras
Vintage Baby Brownie camera with original box, featuring black plastic body and labeled packaging.
Vintage camera from New York World's Fair with a viewfinder and lens on the front.
Vintage Baby Brownie camera with black body and simple design, featuring a lens and a small viewfinder on top.
Vintage Six-20 Bull's-Eye box camera, black with metal details and braided strap.
Two vintage box cameras with art deco designs on front panels.
Vintage Kodak Brownie Junior Six-20 box camera, black with metallic details, featuring a simple rectangular design and a leather strap on top.
Vintage Brownie Junior Six-16 box camera beside its original black and yellow packaging labeled "Brownie Junior E.K.C."
Vintage black Bullet camera with original yellow and black packaging box
The Kodak Bullet from the 1939 New York Worlds fair was designed by Walter Dorwin Teague. It has a unique faceplate.
Vintage Kodak Jiffy cameras, art deco design, with original box shown in a close-up image.
Jiffy Kodak V.P. folding camera with original box
Vintage Kodak Senior folding camera with bellows fully extended, featuring a lens and dials on the front.
Stack of vintage book-shaped items with leather-like covers and metal accents
The Super Kodak Six-20 with it's clam shell design is very rare. It is rumored only 719 were made.
Vintage 3A Kodak Series II folding camera with original box
A group of military pilots in uniform posing in front of a propeller airplane.

Cameras made between 1940-1949

With the 1930s coming to an end, the war in Europe continues to escalate. Kodak introduces new models of cameras, and even produced specific styles for use overseas.

Vintage Kodak Medalist camera with Supermatic No.2 lens
Kodak Medalist II vintage camera top view, showing dials and controls.
Vintage Kodak Brownie Flash Six-20 box camera with a black textured body and leather strap.
Vintage Brownie Reflex camera, Eastman Kodak Co.
Vintage Kodak Brownie Target Six-16 and Six-20 box cameras on a gray background.
Two vintage Brownie Target Six-16 and Six-20 cameras by Eastman Kodak.
Two vintage Kodak Brownie box cameras, Target Brownie Six-16 and Target Brownie Six-20, with black bodies and art deco design. Target Brownie Six-16 and Six-20
Vintage Kodak Brownie Six-16 box camera with black casing and lens
Vintage Kodak Tourist Camera with box.
Vintage Kodak Duex camera with black and silver design, featuring a prominent lens and knobs, on a plain gray background.
Two vintage Kodak 35 cameras with lenses and dials displayed against a neutral background.
Vintage Kodak 35 military camera with olive green body and black dials, featuring prominent lens and viewfinder on top.
Vintage folding camera with "Monitor" label on viewfinder
Vintage Kodak Ektra camera with manual on a white background.
Kodak Vigilant Junior Six-20 camera with original yellow box on display.
Vintage Kodak folding camera with bellows and a Dakon lens, displayed on a light background.
Close-up of the front of a vintage red car with chrome details, featuring two round headlights and a hood ornament.

Cameras made between 1950-1959

Every time I thought I had documented all of the Kodak cameras for each decade, a new one popped up. My first collecting camera was the Brownie Hawkeye Flash model.

Kodak Brownie Hawkeye vintage camera on gray background
Vintage Kodak Bantam RF camera with brown leather accents and silver lens.
Vintage Kodak Chevron camera
Vintage Kodak Pony series cameras from the 1950s, including the 135, 828, 135 Model B, II, and IV
Vintage Kodak Signet 35 camera seen on gray background
Vintage Kodak Signet 40 camera
Vintage Kodak Duaflex Series Reflex camera. Seen here are models I, II, III, and IV
Vintage Kodak Stereo camera from the 1950s
Vintage Kodak Brownie Holiday and Bullet box-style cameras from the 1950s
Vintage Kodak Brownie Chiquita box-style camera from the 1950s. Also called Brownie Chiquita Camara
Vintage Kodak Startech medical camera with flash and a white colored body
Vintage Kodak Tourist II camera from the 1950s, the last folding camera produced by Kodak